“Somebody asked me about Zuby and RJ. You don’t know what you are getting,” Pitino said of the two juniors. “Zuby didn’t even play at Kansas. RJ was a good freshman [at UMass], solid, but you didn’t know what you were getting. So here are two stars, very underpaid. I’m sure they’ll be at [general […]
“Somebody asked me about Zuby and RJ. You don’t know what you are getting,” Pitino said of the two juniors. “Zuby didn’t even play at Kansas. RJ was a good freshman [at UMass], solid, but you didn’t know what you were getting. So here are two stars, very underpaid. I’m sure they’ll be at [general manager] Matt [Abdelmassih’s] window as soon as the season ends, but they’re not going anywhere.
Asked about being “low-paid,” Ejiofor smiled and said: “I appreciate him for that, but, man, I’m the type of person that doesn’t really care about that NIL stuff. All I care about is winning and going there and playing for Johnnies Nation and playing for my teammates. These are the moments that I play for. I play for championships and making history.”
“First of all, I think there’s a lot of misrepresentation about NIL,” the Hall of Fame coach said after the top-seeded Johnnies blasted No. 2 Creighton 82-66 to win their first Big East Tournament title in 25 years. “NIL didn’t get us this team because Zuby [Ejiofor] and RJ [Luis Jr.] are very low-paid players. That’s nonsense about NIL.”
It has three players who make in the mid-six figures and above, although nobody on the roster makes seven figures.
Rick Pitino wanted to set the record straight: St. John’s isn’t the product of a high Name, Image & Likeness payroll.
St. John’s, The Post recently reported, has an NIL payroll around million, which is believed to be No. 1 in the Big East.
